Has your participation on A Moving Train changed?

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Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,644
I'm curious about this and I'm posting this here instead on on AMT because I believe more forum members are likely to respond here and I think that will give us a more clear picture.
This is an anonymous poll but feel free to respond.
Mods, if this is not an acceptable topic, feel free to lock or delete it.  I don't think this violates any forum rules, but I also would not want to do that.
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Has your participation on A Moving Train changed? 39 votes

My participation on A Moving Train has decreased a lot
51% 20 votes
My participation on AMT has decreased a little
7% 3 votes
My participation on AMT has remained about the same
23% 9 votes
My participation in AMT has increase a little
2% 1 vote
My participation on AMT has increased a lot
5% 2 votes
I have never participated on the AMT section of the forums
10% 4 votes

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  • HTOWN Posts: 37,489
    I'm not on here as much as I used to be & I found the AMT to get to be a bit much. I still check it out from time to time, but rarely comment there anymore. 
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  • Everyone eats their own on there…
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,644
    Everyone eats their own on there…

    An interesting phrase.  I might have to borrow that one some time, haha!
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  • Columbia, SC Posts: 5,211
    It's about the same, which is very, very seldom. It's probably been 3 or 4 years since I participated in a discussion there. 
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,644
    It's about the same, which is very, very seldom. It's probably been 3 or 4 years since I participated in a discussion there. 

    That long?  How the time does fly!  Maybe we'll see you there again one of these days.  :smile:
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  • Columbia, SC Posts: 5,211
    brianlux said:

    That long?  How the time does fly!  Maybe we'll see you there again one of these days.  :smile:
    Maybe, but I did a search on my AMT posts and the last one was in September 2019 so don't hold your breath waiting lol. Plus, politics are so divisive that I'd rather chill here in AET. This place is entertainment and I'd rather connect with other PJ fans than argue and debate.
  • Does AMT talk about vinyl or PJ? If not…. It’s doubtful I am on there. 
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,644
    Maybe, but I did a search on my AMT posts and the last one was in September 2019 so don't hold your breath waiting lol. Plus, politics are so divisive that I'd rather chill here in AET. This place is entertainment and I'd rather connect with other PJ fans than argue and debate.
    AET is great.  Mostly fun, not a lot of conflict. 
    Does AMT talk about vinyl or PJ? If not…. It’s doubtful I am on there. 
    No, neither.  But if you'd like, I could start a thread there on the political and environmental gender and racist implications of the controversy over the word "vinyls"!
    :lol:
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  • everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,785
    I very much take the ‘innocent bystander’ approach to AMT. I go on there every now and then, read a few posts, then run for the hills! 

    There are plenty of interesting topics on there, but these days I feel too apathetic about a lot of things to want to get into it. It’s too intense for me.
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  • It's  too toxic for me.


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  • this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,797
    edited February 2023
    Don't have the time for it that I used to have.  
    Also, in general, once you see the positions many have you know there is almost nothing possible to impact those positions.  Just becomes the same takes, over and over...not too much interest in learning/discussing. 
    Some people get sore over everything and take things personally.  
    Last - and this is the thing that turns me off to it more than anything else - the Devil's Advocate folks.  Arguing just for the same of arguing.
    No thanks.
    Will read some but have very limited interaction there. Have been put in time out a few times by the mods for things typed there.  Just not worth it.
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  • New Jersey Posts: 29,111
    edited February 2023
    I used to post there a lot but just lost interest.  Same arguments, same people defending their respective sides, very few are open minded.  
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  • Posts: 5,316
    There is some interesting discussions on there, but it seemed like too many of them descended into toxic arguments and name calling. I decided to take an extended break.   
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,644
    Thanks to all who voted and to those who commented.  I'm a bit saddened but not surprised how how AMT has (as I see it) devolved into mostly pointless arguing.
    The one reason I will continue to check it out is that I see items posted there now and then that I think are news worthy and that I, for whatever reason, had missed. 
    The best way I can picture AMT becoming more interesting and useful would be if a lot more people were involved (how many visit there now?  A handful maybe?)  But the toxicity of the arguing has driven many away- myself- to some extent- included.  This is unfortunate because we are entering (or are in) a time in our history where the wheels of society are coming off and keeping informed and sharing information and ideas could be useful.  But alas, the wheels of the train are also coming off.  I'm sorry to see it is so.
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  • Its not an open debate  its bullying and a mob mentality in the main. Open and honest is how it should be. It's  just not worth my time


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  • brianlux said:
    Thanks to all who voted and to those who commented.  I'm a bit saddened but not surprised how how AMT has (as I see it) devolved into mostly pointless arguing.
    The one reason I will continue to check it out is that I see items posted there now and then that I think are news worthy and that I, for whatever reason, had missed. 
    The best way I can picture AMT becoming more interesting and useful would be if a lot more people were involved (how many visit there now?  A handful maybe?)  But the toxicity of the arguing has driven many away- myself- to some extent- included.  This is unfortunate because we are entering (or are in) a time in our history where the wheels of society are coming off and keeping informed and sharing information and ideas could be useful.  But alas, the wheels of the train are also coming off.  I'm sorry to see it is so.
    If you have other sources of information that you believe then there is no point of arguing anything.  That's one problem.

    The other is that people are so set in their ways that they would not want to discuss the matter.  They aren't changing their minds.
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,644
    If you have other sources of information that you believe then there is no point of arguing anything.  That's one problem.

    The other is that people are so set in their ways that they would not want to discuss the matter.  They aren't changing their minds.

    True.  But what could change is how people react to those who think differently.  Let's take vaccines for example.  If someone doesn't believe vaccines are a good idea, they to say to someone who does, "I think they are a waste of time but if they make you feel better, that's your business."  Instead, we get bating, or sarcasm, and/or irate responses.  And the same is goes the other way around.  (My own response to that thread had been to either ignore it or point out what a joke it has become.)  Bottom line is, there is little in the way of civil debate there. 
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  • brianlux said:

    True.  But what could change is how people react to those who think differently.  Let's take vaccines for example.  If someone doesn't believe vaccines are a good idea, they to say to someone who does, "I think they are a waste of time but if they make you feel better, that's your business."  Instead, we get bating, or sarcasm, and/or irate responses.  And the same is goes the other way around.  (My own response to that thread had been to either ignore it or point out what a joke it has become.)  Bottom line is, there is little in the way of civil debate there. 
    Yep and I am one of those that has flipped on the vaccine thing.  I'm at the "don't want it, don't get it" end of that spectrum now.
  • Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,124
    Yep and I am one of those that has flipped on the vaccine thing.  I'm at the "don't want it, don't get it" end of that spectrum now.
    So if someone disagrees then you get upset and stop posting?

    Honestly it's like saying "I don't want to breath oxygen anymore" and getting mad at people for saying that makes no sense.
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  • So if someone disagrees then you get upset and stop posting?

    Honestly it's like saying "I don't want to breath oxygen anymore" and getting mad at people for saying that makes no sense.
    I didn't say that anywhere, this is a perfect example of why people don't come on there anymore.  TY for proving Brians point, lol.

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